History

History is Impact= cultural heritage, communities and place making, creative, digital and global economies

History is international

History research is powerful= political, social, economic and digital impact

History is business and innovation

History is interdisciplinary, creative and cultural= working across Humanities, the University & collaborating universities and institutions

History is community co-production= place-making through heritage, facilitating identity and social cohesion through cultural history

“It has involved a number of trips to the archives and quite a few - enjoyable - team meetings as we developed our ideas. A couple of the St Albans group grew confident enough to actually write something, as opposed to just sending me their notes, which was great. So much so, of course, that Jon Mein (one of the members) was encouraged to apply for the MA by Research”.

Prof Owen Davies at Bletchley Park